Dish-drainer.



U. ANDREWS, JR. DISH DRAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, 1911.

1,029,906, Patented June 18, 1912.

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ITED STATES FFIC.

CHARLES ANDREWS, JR., OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ANDREWS WIRE &

IRON WORKS, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

' DISH-DRAINER.

Specification of Letters I'atent.

' Application filed March 9, 1911. Serial No. 618,667.

Patented J une 18, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ANnREws, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish- Drainers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a dish drainer in which the bottom is formed of cross-wires, some of which are formed with upwardly extending sections against which the dishes rest to hold them in an upright glosition so that the Water will drain from t em.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 connected to the top bar and extend parallel,

1 with the end sections thereof. At the point of crossing of the wires 5 with the wires 6 they are woven together so as to form a substantial bottom. The center section 7 of each of the wires 6 is bowed upward above the plane of the wires 5 as shown at Fig." 2.

The dishes 8 to be drained are placed in the drainer, the first dish resting against one of the end sections of the top bar 1, and against the section 7 nearest to said end section, and the next dish rests against the first dish and against the next section 7 of the wires 6 as shown at Fig. 3, and so on until the drainer is filled, or all the dishes placed therein.

The water from the dishes will drip into a suitable receptacle. The sections 7 ofthe wires 6 hold the dishes in an upright position. It will also be noted that bythisarrangement, the series of upward bends 7 form together a longitudinal abutment lengthwise of the drainer, so that, for example, long dishes may be placed longitudinally in said drainer, with their lower edges abutted against the ends of said bends. It will also be noted that the particular ar rangement of the rods 2 is important in the combination, inasmuch as the central depending loop 3 constitutes-a supporting foot at the center of the bottom directly beneath the abutments, so as to prevent said bottom breaking down at this point, where most of the weightwill come, because of the arrangement of said abutments.

"I claim as my invention.

1. A dish drainer, having an open top and,

comprising a frame and-a bottom secured to the frame and composed of crossed interwoven wires, the wires that extend in one direction having their central portions upwardly bowed and their terminal portions substantially flat, each bowed portlon constituting a dish stop or abutment both at the ends and sides of said bowed port-ion.

2. A dish drainer, havin an open top and comprising a frame and a ottom secured to the frame and composed of longitudinal wires, the central longitudinal wires being spaced farther apart than the remaining longitudinal wires, and transverse wires crossing the longitudinal wires and interwoven therewith, said transverse wires having their central-portions bridging the space between the central longitudinal wires upwardly bowed above the plane of said wires, each bowed portion constituting a dish stop or abutment both at the ends and sides of said bowed portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES ANDREWS, JR. Witnesses:

ELIZABETH M. TIOKNOR, A. O. BEHEL. 

